Here are a couple new mods as promised last week. They're both Porsche car modifications for San Andreas, and they're both great! Sometimes conversions from other games come out a little dodgy, but I really enjoyed these mods and you will too if you're a Porsche fan!

The Weazel News section of the official GTA IV site was updated today with the following new bulletin:

Polyhedral sex toy banned
Deputy Mayor Bryce Dawkins announced today that his new Family Values Task Force has fined numerous adult stores in the area for failing to remove a recently banned polyhedral sex toy, claiming that MMORPG games, board games and online teen chat rooms lead to trouble.

Reminder: The fourth and final GTA IV trailer launches in two days, this Thursday, March 27th.

GameStop and Rockstar Games have come together and set up a major promotional competition where you can win up to $10,000 and a trip to Liberty City (New York City). Starting today you can head over to GameStop.com/GTAIV to check out the major details for the contest and sign up to be in the running. Four winners will be flown out to New York City to open Niko’s Lock Box on the 28th of April. The trip includes spending money, goodies from GameStop and Rockstar Games and the chance of opening an envelope containing up to $10,000.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to remind you about our own GTAGaming GTA IV Giveaway. Although we're not giving out $10,000 and free vacations, your chances of winning GTA IV Special Edition are pretty high! Be sure to enter before April 15th if you're interested.

Earlier today a user of popular photo sharing website Flickr uploaded a set of photos from a private event held recently. The event was arranged by Microsoft, The ID Agency and SA Studios. The latter company has had dealings with Rockstar Games in the past and is responsible for some of the artwork used in the promotion of earlier GTA titles.

One of the photos shows a player with their hands on an Xbox 360 controller with a large TV in the background. On that TV there appears to be some sort of game running and given the context of the event, it would be wise to assume that it may be Grand Theft Auto IV.

The event's authenticity is backed up by other images in the set which show another limited edition Xbox 360 console along with its accessories, sitting atop a very interesting table.

Earlier this week a number of websites began writing stories claiming that the PlayStation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV would cost more than the Xbox 360 version in the UK. The rumor began at Videogaming247 and was based on a poster hung in the window of a branch of WH Smith.

The recommended retail price of games is set by their distributor and like all other Rockstar Games titles released in the UK, GTA IV will be handled by Gem. On its website today, Gem lists the Recommended Retail Price of GTA IV on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as being £49.99.

The RRP of a title is a guide for retailers to follow when pricing titles. It's not the price which the retailer pays for each unit (this is considerably less) and it is the retailer's decision how much to discount each title, if at all. There are hundreds of retailers in the UK which sell video games, so if it's not being sold at a fair price in your local store, try further afield.

At the time of going to press, the cheapest available price in the UK was £34.99, advertised by Amazon.co.uk for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The first images of Grand Theft Auto IV's highly anticipated multiplayer mode have appeared online today. Dutch gaming website Xbox World posted a whole bunch of brand new images and a number of clear digital versions of images previously revealed in magazines.

The first indication of GTA IV's presales performance was revealed today when Take Two Interactive confirmed that the special edition of the game has almost sold out in New Zealand.

While the tiny island nation of just over four million inhabitants doesn't put much of a mark on worldwide sales figures, the excitement which must be brewing among Kiwis is probably something echoed all around the world.

If you really are interested in getting your hands on the more expensive version of the game, it's probably advisable to pre order it as soon as possible. Those lockboxes are being snapped up so fast!

It's information overload this week with the first images of the multiplayer mode appearing yesterday and now today some very kind person has released images of the double sided map included with the PlayStation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV.

On one side there's a detailed street map showing every landmark, restaurant, store and street and on the other there's a full subway map along with the full controller layout for the PS3 version.

**Removed following request of Rockstar Games.**
You can still view the images at Kotaku

The latest issue of OXM (Official Xbox Magazine) contains a seven-page preview of Grand Theft Auto IV's multiplayer modes. The preview contains a lot of new screenshots, several new pieces of artwork, and some interesting information. Here's a summary of the new points covered:

The entire map is playable during multiplayer

You can't play as Niko during multiplayer, but you choose a male or female character with custom clothing

There are three styles of voice chat chosen by the host: free, team, or proximity chat

You can use any vehicle (that means cars, boats, helicopters, etc) in race modes

Hangman's NOOSE is a four-player mode that starts at the airport. In this mode, you have to take Kenny Petrovic to a safe zone in the city while pursued by the NOOSE team (National Organization of Security Enforcement), similar to "VIP" multiplayer modes in other games

You can skip rockets on the ground with good aim

Free roam has no rules or cash, and the host decides what weapons appear. It should prove to be the most popular multiplayer mode.